Again the same black pen and different handwriting: “Print from Screened neg., Z3666 , Historic Heartland Assoc.”

Carl Zapffe was the founder of Historic Heartland Association. His photo collection is housed with the Nisswa Historical Society as far as I know. I talked personally to the president of the Nisswa society in 2007 about these two photographs and later sent copies and wrote to them. They eventually wrote me back and told me they were unable to identify or give me any further information on these two photographs. In exchange he referenced an article about George that I will discuss in a later post.

When I visited Pine River in 2000, I shared these two photographs with the Editor and they were printed in the Pine River newspaper in an article about my visit. See my March 15, 2010 post – An Appointment – Pine River Journal for more information.

Mr. Zapffe wrote several oversized historical booklets about “Oldtimers” in Minnesota that I purchased and will feature later on in my posts. The Crow Wing Historical Society in Brainerd may still have copies. You can Google his writings which are still out there? He died sometime in the 1990’s, I believe?

Mr. Zapffe actually corresponded with my Aunt Miriam at some point. I found a brochure that had family photographs in color in her possession. There is a photograph of a bride – Christina Ethel Zapffee and groom Thomas Richard Anderson, Jr. dated 1973. A family group photo with all the names of the children but just Mom and Pop listed and I suspect that Pop refers to Mr. Zapffe. Other family groupings photos are included in the brochure. The brochure/pamphlet is 4 pages long. On the back is a discussion of the Mystical Window featured on the front page and a Merry Christmas at the bottom. The envelope has a Baltimore, Maryland address and is stamped with Dec. 1973. The brochure is a real treasure of family photographs for both Anderson and Zapffee who are not my family.

Would I be interested in the story behind this and how my Aunt Miriam obtained copies of these photographs of Amarilla and George, my great grandparents? Just another mystery in my family!

Yes, he did. Did you read my post before these photographs. 1878 Enter Amarilla! I state that Rev. Herbert Root married them about 1/2 down. How nice of you to stop by and visit. I wonder what stories your great grandfather’s brother would tell?

Things to Ponder

The Header Photo is San Francisco in 1999 when I visited there for about the 3rd time. I did not realize that my Barclay family was so involved with this city. Unfortunately the colors have gotten muted.

KELLER DESCENDANTS of John and Mary (Delano) Keller. Over the past year of 2014 and currently in 2015 I have been posting about the descendants of John and Mary on my Solomon Goss of Fearing Twp., In Ohio blog (see the link below). The Surnames are: Keller, Delano, Spracklin, Evertts, Helt, Pearl, WIntermute, Barr, Van Houten, Carson, Shaffer, Kees, Lacy, Riblet and much more. Cousins are sharing on that Solomon Goss Blog. More information has come to light about these families.

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